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Camille Seaman

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As an artist,connection is very important to me.Through my work I'm trying to articulatethat humans are not separate from natureand that everything is interconnected.I first went to Antarctica almost 10 years ago,where I saw my first icebergs.I was in awe.My heart beat fast, my head was dizzy,trying to comprehend what it was that stood in front of me.The icebergs around mewere almost 200 feet out of the water,and I could only help but wonderthat this was one snowflakeon top of another snowflake,year after year.

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Icebergs are bornwhen they calve off of glaciersor break off of ice shelves.Each iceberg has its own individual personality.They have a distinct wayof interacting with their environmentand their experiences.Some refuse to give upand hold on to the bitter end,while others can't take it anymoreand crumble in a fit of dramatic passion.

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It's easy to think, when you look at an iceberg,that they're isolated,that they're separate and alone,much like we as humans sometimes view ourselves.But the reality is far from it.As an iceberg melts,I am breathing inits ancient atmosphere.As the iceberg melts,it is releasing mineral-rich fresh waterthat nourishes many forms of life.

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I approach photographing these icebergsas if I'm making portraits of my ancestors,knowing that in these individual momentsthey exist in that wayand will never exist that way again.It is not a death when they melt;it is not an end,but a continuationof their path through the cycle of life.Some of the ice in the icebergs that I photograph is very young --a couple thousand years old.And some of the iceis over 100,000 years old.

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The last pictures I'd like to show youare of an iceberg that I photographedin Qeqetarsuaq, Greenland.It's a very rare occasionthat you get to actually witnessan iceberg rolling.So here it is.You can see on the left side a small boat.That's about a 15-foot boat.And I'd like you to pay attentionto the shape of the icebergand where it is at the waterline.You can see here, it begins to roll,and the boat has moved to the other side, and the man is standing there.This is an average-size Greenlandic iceberg.It's about 120 feet above the water,or 40 meters.And this video is real time.

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And just like that,the iceberg shows you a different side of its personality.